Anthropic · OpenAI · Gemini · Claude · Google · ChatGPT · The Verge
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
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OpenAI’s still the chatbot leader, but the race appears to be tightening fast.
Key facts
- OpenAI said that ChatGPT had 900 million weekly active users in February of this year, and reaching 1 billion five months later represents a significant slowdown in growth for ChatGPT
- For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users
- External data suggested ChatGPT crossed 1 billion users as early as this June, but OpenAI hadn’t announced anything until that post on August 6th
- A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn’t the first AI app to hit it
Summary
For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn’t the first AI app to hit it. The metrics, and the growth they represent, are somewhat complicated here. Google, meanwhile, announced in February that Gemini had 750 million monthly users, before reporting 950 million in late July on its earnings call, and Google spokesperson Alex Joseph says it reached 1 billion last week before announcing it today. (Claude appears to be growing fast, but Anthropic doesn’t disclose its user data, and estimates put its user numbers in the tens of millions.) There’s no easy way to compare weekly and monthly users, of course, but the simplest read is that ChatGPT is the larger of the platforms but Gemini may be the faster growing.